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Mayor Rahm has been twisting the Commish's arm for the SB or the draft pretty hard. We all know (including Rahm) that Chicago wont get the SB, but playing his brand of politics has almost secured the draft as a bone tossed by the league to the Mayor. Hell the draft is all the Mayor probably ever wanted, but he played the game and he'll most likely get it.

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Mayor Rahm has been twisting the Commish's arm for the SB or the draft pretty hard. We all know (including Rahm) that Chicago wont get the SB, but playing his brand of politics has almost secured the draft as a bone tossed by the league to the Mayor. Hell the draft is all the Mayor probably ever wanted, but he played the game and he'll most likely get it.

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Pro-Bowler

The way the draft is growing in interest it may financially be a bigger cash cow in time anyway. You have 3 days of the draft vs one day for the Super Bowl. Somebody will figure out how to market this draft and turn it into a cash cow equivalent to the Super Bowl as far as the City profits go. It only makes sense you have 3 times the opportunities, and lots of teams within 8 t0 12 hours to Chicago by car. Even California is 5 hrs by plane, and 3 hrs or so by plane to New York and lots of money in those states for those who want t0 be a part of it.

The City and infrastructure is already in place and the more than enough bars downtown to the burbs. Lots of possibilities from an advertising side, the infracture exists including hotels, food, and party locations, transit, etc,. City needs to turn this into the NFL version of Mardi Gras with everyone in their team Jerseys instead of costumes and punctuate it with the draft.

I can see this being somethings cities start to bid for much like the Super Bowl. Hopefully they will restrict it to teams who can not host the Super Bowl due to weather and stadium combinations and make this an opportunity for those cities to showcase themselves.

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SuperFanDBS Writer

It is known as Super Bowl week for a reason. Where ever the game is hosted is a cash cow for the entire week

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Yep, at least that gives the cities a even chance to recoup some of their expenditures.

But BSB's point is well taken. Chicago is an almost perfect location because of it's central location and ease of travel to and from. The East Coast has had the benefit of this event long enough. It's time to either spread it around or to let Chicago bid on keeping it located there. The city will never see a Super Bowl as long as the Bears are playing in SF and LA makes very little sense because if they won't support an NFL team why would they get all excited about hosting the draft?

This is a golden opportunity to show how well it works out with Chicago hosting although I wonder if they wouldn't be better off going out to Rosemont than to have in at somewhere like McCormick place. It's much closer to O'Hare and less congested out there than in the city although the could still hold some events there too.

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